YoungWillz

Phew, just beat ya to it DI!

Focus now switches to Daniel Dion, her brother, who apparently is hours or days away from death: http://www.bustle.com/articles/135938-celine-dions-brother-has-days-or-hours-left-to-live-in-more-tragic-news-for-the

Death Notice for John B Mansbridge, who has died at 98. http://forestlawn.tributes.com/obituary/show/John-B.-Mansbridge-103190444 Art Director on a whole host of movies, mostly Disney, such as the Herbie movies and Pete's Dragon, TRON etc., he was previously named as a contender on this forum for this year by wolverine10. http://www.deathlist.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8444&p=246140 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0543727/

Qualifying Obit for DDP if needed: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3401285/Grizzly-Adams-star-Dan-Haggerty-dies-74-battle-cancer.html

Spade hasn't entered a team, he's playing against the race.

Scottish writer Robert Banks Stewart dies at 84. http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/news/bergerac-and-shoestring-creator-robert-banks-stewart-dies-aged-84-34367921.html Worked on Terror Of The Zygons and The Seeds Of Doom for Doctor Who as well as The Avengers, Danger Man, Shoestring and Bergerac. RIP. Edit: Qualifying Obit if needed: http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/doctor-who-legend-robert-banks-7186597. Another victim of cancer it seems.

Hmmm, should we brace ourselves? https://twitter.com/imrichardmorris/status/687991296452104192

Anas Abu Nabbut, aka Abu Abdullah, top Al-Qaeda commander reportedly shot dead in Syria: http://aranews.net/2016/01/al-qaeda-top-commander-found-dead-in-syrias-daraa/

Insider trading on a Death bull market...it's a dangerous game. Mind you, so is Cluedo with semtex....

James Corden must be shitting himself, he's running out of celebrities to put on his poxy show.

Just to rub in the Michel Delpech (who?) lack of obit, Leonid Zhabotinsky, weightlifting gold medallist at the 1964 and 1968 Olympics in the heavyweight division has died at 77 and gets a qualifying obit: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3399252/Russian-2x-Olympic-weightlift-champ-Leonid-Zhabotinsky-dies.html

The unknown sick are kicking the known sick's asses these days.

It's in other, more appropriate, threads, I agree. For millions it's his best known role, like it or not. *shrug* It'll be the same for Maggie Smith, Miriam Margolyes, Zoe Wanamaker, etc etc etc etc.

As posted elsewhere, Alan Rickman who was superb as Snape in the movies has died at 69. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35313604 Preparing for a marathon read through and movie binge later. Damn you Reaper!

Totally freaking shocked by this news! BBC news came on and it was the top story. I'll pop it in the HP thread too if you don't mind, if it's not done already. Not even a fortnight old and 2016 steals the lives of some of our greatest.

Ugh a cut from my DDP theme team. Two Brians have now died and I had neither. SC Bad luck Sir C. Qualifying obit if needed. http://www.dailystar.co.uk/movies/487562/Brian-Bedford-dies-voice-Robin-Hood

Watching it at the moment.He still looks ok .He doesn`t look 83.His mind seems to be working fine too.No idea why he was on the list in 2012. Wishful thinking perhaps?

Death Notice for Lady Auriol Moate, the wife of Sir Roger Moate who was from 1970 until 1997 the Tory MP for Faversham. http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/198532/moate and http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/4191433/Time-to-sell-the-nest-egg.html

People watchers and death assessors may want to look up the Hard Talk interview on the BBC iPlayer. It's on BBC News Channel at the moment.

Stage and TV/film actor Brian Bedford has died at 80. http://playbill.com/news/article/seven-time-tony-nominated-actor-brian-bedford-dead-at-80-379395 Provided the voice for Robin Hood in the Disney animation of 1973, nominated seven times for a Tony award, etc etc.

Conrad Phillips: http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/jan/13/conrad-phillips

Correct - he's dead! http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/jan/13/conrad-phillips

Claimant for World's oldest man at 131 Joao Coelho de Souza: http://www.sundayworld.com/entertainment/trending/world-s-oldest-man-may-have-just-been-discovered We'll see.

A few for consideration. I mostly disagree with other honorable members. There are probably others, but here's my top three: Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody. Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline. Bette Midler (or anyone else) - The Rose.